Dell looks close to collapse, which would be more bad news for Microsoft's image. (3 months ago: net tangible assets zero and falling; accounts payable more than 3 months sales; 6 weeks ago: falling demand warning). Notice how this is announced one day before Dell's quarter end? I wonder if there's been a linked financial transaction to save Dell's numbers for the quarter with some Microsoft assisted cash/receivables smoke and mirrors.

The new Dell Data Center Solutions "Cloud" server looks very similar to a project that Open Source Systems was working on before they went under. It was a brilliant idea, and I'm glad to see that someone was able to take their design mainstream! (Somewhat). It looks like the team at OSS was ahead of their time!

Dell Design:

http://direct2dell.com/cloudcomputing/archive/2008/05/13/xs23-cloud-server.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

Original OSS Design:

http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2007/05/oss_injects_gre.html